Brent Budowsky

Brent Budowsky served as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, responsible for commerce and intelligence matters, including one of the core drafters of the CIA Identities Law. Served as Legislative Director to Congressman Bill Alexander, then Chief Deputy Whip, House of Representatives. Currently a member of the International Advisory Council of the Intelligence Summit. Left government in 1990 for marketing and public affairs business including major corporate entertainment and talent management. He can be reached at brentbbi@webtv.net.

Brent Budowsky: Across America, from campuses to churches, from union halls to town meetings, from Hollywood to Main Street, Americans are rising and will soon be voting against the hate, fear and lies that President Trump pedals in his closing argument of his bitterly divisive midterm election campaign.

Brent Budowsky: Democrats are the party of justice that would never countenance a Supreme Court nominee who makes an angry, partisan, bitterly divisive and insult-laden speech at his confirmation hearing.

Brent Budowsky: Klobuchar began by mentioning the challenges with alcoholism faced by her father and proceeded to ask Kavanaugh, in a respectful and serious manner, whether he had ever used so much alcohol that he could not remember what had happened during the time he had been drinking.

Brent Budowsky: Democrats should devise proposals to repeal the most egregious provisions of GOP tax cuts that provided lavish benefits to the wealthiest citizens, and replace them with tax cuts that lift the lives of Americans who receive little or nothing from the GOP tax cuts.

Brent Budowsky: At a time when polls are showing danger for Republicans, from Trump’s sky-high unpopularity to their low support in the midterm elections, this book will put intense pressure on Republicans facing the grave danger of going down with Trump’s ship in the midterms.

Brent Budowsky: The great curse of Republicans in the midterm elections is that on issue after issue, many of them appear to be playing the role of Fredo Corleone, the hapless, duplicitous and incompetent sycophant in the original Godfather.

Brent Budowsky: When Obama begins actively campaigning for Democrats, cable news will bring live coverage of every Obama speech for Democrats alongside live coverage of every Trump speech for Republicans.

The Middle East

David A. Love: Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs works with front groups such as the Israel Project and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) to spy on US citizens who support Palestinian rights and smear them as anti-Semites, in a covert campaign that smacks of McCarthyism and Islamophobia.